Oceana, WV 24857 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Oceana, WV, ZIP 24857
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 193 frost-free days later.
Oceana sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Oceana has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Oceana's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Oceana compares
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Oceana places 19,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WV, it ranks 208 of 885.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Oceana's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Oceana can differ from the 24857 normal.